Heart-shaped

Dave BontaAnxious

a rose comes to desire its sand

so might say nothing about the kind of heart

that is not a heart of paper or of lead

or another name for an open mouth

do I find my heart from the sound of chewing

mad undertaker our only way is to break

Erasure poems derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 14 February 1668.

Dave Bonta

Learn by heart: tap a gap

to its sand
so might say
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